So let me get this straight. One of the leading candidates, perhaps the leading candidate, to become the Cavaliers' next coach is the coach who was fired before the coach who was fired Thursday was hired?

It makes your head hurt just thinking about it.

Who is running the show here? Moondog, is that you?

With all due respect to everyone involved, in what parallel universe does it make any sense for the Cavs to replace the coach they hired after firing Mike Brown with Mike Brown?

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It might -- I said might -- make sense if the Cavs had a different group of decision makers from the ones who fired Brown. If that was the case, the new guys I suppose could legitimately say, "Those last guys didn't know what they were doing, we like Mike Brown and we're going to hire him."

But that's not the case.

The decision makers who fired Brown, hired Byron Scott, then fired Byron Scott, are the same decision makers who are going to hire the next coach. If they hire Brown, somebody has some explaining to do.

How could Brown be Mr. Wrong three years ago and Mr. Right now? What's changed? If the group that fired Brown three years ago hires Brown now, what does that make the last three years?

A waste of time comes to mind.

How can a group of decision makers like nothing at all about Brown three years ago and like everything about him now? What has he done in the interim besides getting fired by the Lakers?

This has nothing to do with Brown's coaching ability. I've never been a big fan. Very nice guy, but let's be honest. Every year he has coached in the NBA he has had one or the other of two players who between them have won a combined 14 NBA season MVP, All-Star Game MVP and NBA Finals MVP awards.

So the rosters he's been given to coach haven't exactly made him feel like he's competing in a three-legged sack race.

If the argument is, "Well this Cavs roster is better suited for Brown to coach than the one he had that last time he was here," -- sorry, not buying it.

The same decision makers assembled both rosters, so whose fault was that?

Never mind the fact that hiring Brown would imply that perhaps Scott shouldn't stray too far, because he could look mighty attractive again in three years when the recycling-friendly Cavs go looking for another new (former) coach, or the fact that hiring Brown wouldn't exactly seem to be the subtle "come hither" wink-wink-nod to a certain global icon who will become a free agent after next season.

The biggest question surrounding the Cavs these days isn't who is coaching the show, but who is running the show.

-- For those scoring at home, in the last six months the Indians, Browns and Cavs have all fired their coaches (or manager), none of whom followed the advice from that famous line: "When you're getting run out of town, get out in front and call it a parade."

-- On the list of those who you would least want knocking on your door anytime of the day or night, the FBI is right up there. For many, the FBI might be the whole list.

So guess who came knocking at the door of Cleveland Browns owner Jimbo Haslam III at the Pilot Flying J headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., last week?

That's right, the Sons of J. Edgar Hoover.

Nice start to minicamp, huh?

All of a sudden Brandon Weeden's ability to read defenses is the least of the Browns' problems.

Haslam downplayed this unexpected visit from the nation's police force and the subsequent FBI search warrant affidavit stating Haslam knew about a fraud scheme, which involved rebates not paid to customers.

Now we know why the Browns' owner, who stepped down as CEO of Pilot Flying J near the end of last year, suddenly went back to Tennessee in February to once again run the company.

When the FBI starts snooping around, it's always better for Mr. Big to be there to answer questions than to be hundreds of miles away, sitting in his office on Lou Groza Boulevard going over designs for new football uniforms.

We won't know for perhaps weeks or months what, if anything, will come of the FBI's "hello? Anybody home?" surprise visit to Haslamland. Even though the FBI rarely shows up unexpectedly in order to help decorate for a party, it's also not always the case that when the Feds march in the heavily manacled eventually march out.

What we do know is that perception, if not everything, is still a very big thing. And this thing, candidly, doesn't look good for the highly image-conscious Haslam, nor for his businesses -- both of them.

Especially for his image-battered football team.

The last thing the Browns need on the week minicamp opens is to be answering questions about why their owner is answering questions asked by the FBI.

Yeesh.

Almost makes you long for those quietly serene days of the Lerner Era, when the FBI considered the Browns as did the rest of the NFL: irrelevant.

-- Struggling Ubaldo Jimenez is scheduled to start against the hapless Houston Astros on Sunday. What happens when struggling meets hapless? Stay tuned.

-- Kevin Durant, who in his last game of the regular season needed to score just 70 points to win the NBA scoring title over Carmelo Anthony, chose instead to sit out that final game.

If I was Durant, I would have played, scored 69 points and then asked to be taken out of the game.

Weak of the week

The Miami Marlins have hit four home runs. All of them. Total. For the season so far. Four. One less than Evan Gattis.